This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.For so many years now, the concept of mind control has existed, and people have shown both fear and fascination of what would take place if an individual would control their thoughts and minds and lead them to do things that are against their wish and will.There have been conspiracy theories on how government officials, as well as other influential persons, use their talents and capacities to control actions of ...

August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and celebrated—the struggle did not end there. Due to states’ laws and prohibitive policies, ...

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind. As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradi...

He slaughtered my family. Burned my home to ash. Made my people refugees in their own lands.And now the fates have decided he is mine.Brynja Vael has spent a decade in the frozen wilderness, building a rebellion from nothing — surviving on rage, grief, and an unbreakable oath to destroy King Rhaedolf Vance. She is the last of the Northern royals, the Rebel Heir the crown fears most. And she is this close to tearing his empire apart.Then he fi...

Everyone has their own version of the Boogeyman. But who—or what—is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant falls into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. But what is real and what is imaginary? Quant works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of fatalities growing. Compounding Quant’s bewilderment is the disappearance of a friend who has become a ghost he simply can’t find. From siz...

Zwei Feinde. Zwei Imperien. Ein Jahr, um getrennt zu bleiben.Sie scheiterten, bevor es überhaupt begonnen hatte.SORENIch kenne keine Gefühle.Ich kenne Strategie. Kontrolle. Ergebnisse.Mein Vater schickte mich mit einer einzigen Aufgabe zur Harlow University: das Bündnis am Leben erhalten, den Ashford-Erben im Auge behalten und Bericht erstatten.Simpel.Sauber.Bis ich Ren Ashford begegnete.Er ist alles, w...

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’ by Keith Laumer ‘Homo Inferior’ by Mari Wolf ‘The Talkative Tree’ by H.B. Fyfe ‘Show Business’ by Boyd Ellanby ‘The One and the Many’ by Milton Lesser ‘The Stowaway’ by Alvin Heiner ‘Sound of Te...

They did not ask for her consent. They simply left her at the mountain gate, dressed in white, with a wreath of burial flowers in her hair.A sacrifice. A bride. A problem for the dragon king to deal with.Carys had other plans.She is a witch of the Briar Coven — a quiet, earth-bound healer with dirt under her fingernails and roots deep enough to hold a mountain together. She has no interest in dragon kings, obsidian thrones, or ancient treaties sealed...